Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in Pennsylvania, 2012
7 tornado watches in 2012. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of tornado watches reaches back to 1997.
Tornado Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 7
- Busiest month
- June4 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- June 1, 20123 tornado watches
Over time
By month
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Eastern Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 1:28 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Cumberland, Fayette and 8 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 1, 1:50 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Berks, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, York | 7 hr |
| Jun 1, 6:04 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cameron, Centre, Clearfield, Clinton, Columbia, Elk and 10 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 1, 8:01 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Berks, Bucks, Carbon, Chester, Cumberland and 11 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 26, 2:10 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bradford, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Pike, Susquehanna, Wayne and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 8, 12:40 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bradford, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Pike, Susquehanna, Wayne and 1 more | 7 hr |
| Sep 18, 12:10 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Berks, Bradford, Bucks, Carbon, Chester and 28 more | 9 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Adams County3
- Cumberland County3
- Perry County3
- Berks County3
- Dauphin County3
- Lancaster County3
- Lebanon County3
- York County3
- Bradford County3
- Lackawanna County3
- Luzerne County3
- Pike County3
- Susquehanna County3
- Wayne County3
- Wyoming County3
- Franklin County2
- Juniata County2
- Columbia County2
- Lycoming County2
- Montour County2
- Northumberland County2
- Schuylkill County2
- Snyder County2
- Sullivan County2
- Union County2
- Bucks County2
- Carbon County2
- Chester County2
- Delaware County2
- Lehigh County2
- Monroe County2
- Montgomery County2
- Northampton County2
- Philadelphia County2
- Bedford County1
- Blair County1
- Cambria County1
- Fayette County1
- Fulton County1
- Huntingdon County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
Nearby
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Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Rebuilt daily.